And LaBubu, “blind box” where you don’t know which one you’re getting and to get a specific color have to repurchase. Why sell 1 to a kid when you can make them buy 150.to get the “special” one? Artificial scarcity and gambling at its finest. Set those endorphins up from a young age.

Imagine they were concerned about how addictive Diablo II was back in the day…

Imagine when spastically making alternating claims of illegal global tariffs on one of your strongest trading partners and holders of 1/4 of your sovereign debt is your 3rd-worst conversation piece.

All the news fit to-gone! Nothing! Shop closed, bets off!

Boo. Let the billionaire subsidize his own palace. We have our own problems without welfare for the ultra rich

Good for him, dude deserves to get paid.

Paywall

All tax breaks for development should only go to housing that lower income individuals can afford. Only expensive housing gets built. That is the main issue in Portland and elsewhere, meanwhile PDC is giving out tax breaks to highrises for luxury condos.

There is a reason why medicine is setup to have experienced people guide the uninformed; we can’t all go to medical school. The complexity of tech is no less than that field but because modern tech unfortunately largely developed in a no-holds-barred US capitalist violence machine against the average person, they have few advocates, little visibility and almost no recourse.

Who better to bill than someone who has established good credit and who something can likely be scraped from when medical bankruptcy hits? What a refreshing angle.

The EU is under full frontal assault on many of its financial, consumer, commercial and technological protections and systems and is cracking and giving the pressure in many places unfortunately. Partner with the EU where you can, there are also interesting things happening in Brasil IIRC in this space.

As an American, I hope Canadians see through the false dilemma being proposed and learn from the abuse NAFTA and only-quarterly-results-matter thinking got the American middle class in manufacturing and consumption; it almost no longer exists and has been deflated rapidly. To say nothing of the clear lessons about off-shoring critical infrastructure, I hope cooler heads prevail and Canada maintains its sovereignty.

The Goat?

Reminds me of signs in Oregon “No littering, $500 maximum fine"

Like why the fuck would you put the max when it’s low? Talk about a Cobra Effect…but that’s the point, it’s not desired to be effective, might inadvertently make driving slightly less appealing and cut some infinitesimal slice of big oils profits to be able to cross the street safely.

If you haven’t seen “a million ways to die in the west”, it was a Brooks-worthy send-up.

Meanwhile 250B unfunded to start a war in Iran from which fuckall was gained, and much other than money was lost, is unquestionably funded.

Just like afghanistan. iraq.

Probably just a coincidence.

The problem with the “reinvestment” thesis is that the US and certainly not California, aren’t some fledgling economies struggling to develop and grow–wealth is so unhealthily concentrated it leads to those with outsized portion of the gains investing in things for the sake of investing rather than actually doing anything good for the economy(let alone nation) long term.

Billionaires have wealth managers and investment teams throwing money at returns regardless of externalities, tax minimization, lobbying…they aren’t putting money into anything “real” that anyone on main street or any other street would benefit from.

5% one time seems so poorly thought out it was designed to be voted down by those who want real change (permanent, ongoing), which is anyone not in the 1%

Politics

To ensure proper pizza allocation, we will require Lazer engraving on our work unit (employee) necks here at META to ensure desirable fun ratios are achieved.

What does “X country corporation” in any industry mean when they have shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Ireland or wherever tax rates and shelters can be best structured?

Corporations have always been and will always be resource leeches that will abandon a country once they no longer have any blood left to suck. The host organism here in the US has already been overcome and Corps are about to start digesting previously pristine federal lands and forests for mining, forestry, and the critical national interest of off-road ATVing.

There are no “country” corporations, they lobbied to be extra-national deliberately.